self-description

Definition of self-description

: the act or an instance of describing oneself
… earned a postwar degree from Harvard Law School, forever beggaring his self-description as "just a country lawyer."— Kurt Andersen… he is, by self-description, the son of Vietnamese refugees …— Joyce Carol Oatesalso: a self-descriptive statement wrote a short self-descriptionHer self-description of "an outright gross cynic yet total Pollyanna" seems apt. — Amanda Saxton